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Reasoning from their FAQ:
Will Magic Earth be Open Source?
No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.
Why? What are the benefits? Better than Waze too?
Waze is owned by Google, so it probably implemented the “Gulf of America” typo too. Just tested Magic Earth for a few minutes, and Organic Maps seems to be the more polished of the two in terms of OpenStreetMap frontend apps, in my opinion.
HERE WeGo is really good, I’ve been using it for years. Has offline mode too so you only rely on GPS and downloaded maps, but has online mode too for realtime traffic info. Can’t comment on this part since I don’t use it.
I tested Magic Earth for my work commute for about a week in hopes of moving away from Waze. It is working really well, but what it really lacks is information about traffic congestion. It will always take me though the same route to work and set a really optimistic ETA because it assumes low traffic. The main benefit of waze is anticipating traffic and planning reroutes. With Waze my ETAs have always been surprisingly accurate, but Magic Earth was off by almost 20 minutes on a 1 hour commute and placing me in the peak traffic route
Yeah this is a key feature for me so won’t be switching from waze
OSM frontend.
there’s no totally FOSS maps app on IOS, but a free OSM frontend is about as good as you’re going to get.
I’m a fan, although I’m not sure it’s a great name. It helps keeps my motivation for updating OSM going.
Thanks for the recommendation, was trying out organic maps and it was lacking allot. This seems promising as a replacement.
Does it show the Gulf of America?
It uses OSM mapping which is publicly edited, currently it is showing Gulf of Mexico as of 1 day ago when they reverted some morons edit.
It doesn’t label areas of water.
Yeah, love the dashcam function. But when there are roads temporary closed, i switch to waze. But magic earth is my standard gps.
Was kind of joking but it’s nice to know.
Looks good, but unfortunately my car (2019 UK Kia Niro hybrid) only accepts Android Auto - and it’s pretty much the only time I’d use the phone for navigation as it provides the GPS for the car :-(
